CN103885088B - For the method for operating hand-held screening installation and hand-held screening installation - Google Patents

For the method for operating hand-held screening installation and hand-held screening installation Download PDF

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CN103885088B
CN103885088B CN201310625832.8A CN201310625832A CN103885088B CN 103885088 B CN103885088 B CN 103885088B CN 201310625832 A CN201310625832 A CN 201310625832A CN 103885088 B CN103885088 B CN 103885088B
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弗卡恩·丹伊
拉尔夫·博恩克
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Abstract

The present invention relates to for the method for operating hand-held screening installation and hand-held screening installation.The method for operating hand-held screening installation is provided, including:Shoot the first image;Determine the area-of-interest in the first image;And scan image is produced by the monostatic radar scanning of area-of-interest.Hand-held screening installation accordingly is also provided.

Description

For the method for operating hand-held screening installation and hand-held screening installation
Technical field
This disclosure relates to for the method for operating hand-held screening installation and hand-held screening installation.
Background technology
The description of " background technology " presented herein is for the overall background that the disclosure is presented.With regard to the background parts This meaning of the various aspects of the description as prior art qualification is otherwise not yet obtained during described and submission For in justice, the work of the inventor currently signed, which is neither expressed, not to be recognized impliedly for relative to the existing skill of the present invention yet Art.
Various conventional systems can be used for obtaining image through observable opaque material.For example, x-ray system by with To obtain by observable opaque material to hide macroscopic object(For example, the thing in anatomical structure or luggage case Body)Image.However, x-ray system has many shortcomings.For example, this system can be costly and huge, and And using the ionizing radiation that may the mankind be caused with health hazard.In addition, x-ray system is generally detected through target sample The wave beam transmitted, it is therefore desirable to close to the both sides of target.And ultrasonic image-forming system needs are emerging in transducer and " hiding " sense Continuous, the transfer voice path of high quality between interesting object be present.However, under many circumstances, this transfer voice path It is probably disabled.
Recently, millimeter wave imaging system has been developed for security sweep application.Millimeter wave is in monostatic radar Detection object is particularly useful in system, i.e. is reflected by launching the electromagnetic wave in the range of millimeter wavelength and detecting Or the electromagnetic wave that is scattered.
It is necessary the usability of further capture apparatus of the improvement based on millimeter wave imaging system.
The content of the invention
A kind of method for operating hand-held screening installation is provided, this method includes:Shoot the first image;It is determined that Area-of-interest in one image;And scan image is produced by the monostatic radar scanning of area-of-interest.
Further it is provided that a kind of hand-held screening installation includes:Monostatic radar scanning element;It is used to determine first with processor Area-of-interest in image and monostatic radar scanning element is controlled to produce the scanning of the monostatic radar of area-of-interest.
Aforementioned paragraphs are provided for general introduction, it is no intended to limit the scope of the claims below.By reference to Described embodiment and additional advantage are better understood with below in conjunction with the detailed description of accompanying drawing.The element of accompanying drawing is each other It is not necessarily to scale.
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By referring to the detailed description done below in conjunction with accompanying drawing, the present invention is more completely evaluated and its many subsidiary It will be easy to achieve and becomes better understood by for advantage, in accompanying drawing:
Fig. 1 schematically shows the method and step according to embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is schematically shown by the first image captured by imaging sensor.
Fig. 3 is schematically shown identifies area-of-interest according to embodiment of the present invention in the first image.
Fig. 4 is schematically shown to be clapped according to being scanned in the monostatic radar by area-of-interest for embodiment of the present invention Take the photograph the second image image shown afterwards.
Fig. 5 is schematically shown identifies area-of-interest according to another embodiment of the present invention in the first image.
Fig. 6 is schematically shown to be clapped according to being scanned in the monostatic radar by area-of-interest for embodiment of the present invention Take the photograph the second image image shown afterwards.
Fig. 7 schematically shows the proposal that can change area-of-interest according to the user of another embodiment of the present invention The display image of first image.
Fig. 8 schematically shows the perspective view of the hand-held screening installation according to embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 9 schematically shows the block diagram of the hand-held screening installation according to embodiment of the present invention.
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With reference now to accompanying drawing, wherein, in several diagrams of whole, similar reference number represents identical or corresponding portion Point, the step of Fig. 1 describes the method for operating hand-held screening installation.
Term " hand-held " used in whole description is construed as description can be by one or two hand-held bands (That is, it is moveable)With the equipment of operation, and the equipment preferably have no more than 3kg weight." hand-held " equipment Should approx have and use the physical dimension as one or the object of two hand normal operatings and/or carrying with people(Highly, Width, length)With weight.Example for such object is book, smart mobile phone, mobile phone, electronic reader, flat board electricity Brain, notebook computer, camera, video camera, binoculars etc..It will be appreciated, however, that equipment should be suitable for hand in itself Hold, but fixed when contemplating the equipment in use, the equipment is installed on tripod or with other in specific application Mode is fixed on support member.
In the step s 100, the first image is shot.The image can sense by photographic camera, by passive millimeter wave Device, pass through active millimeter wave sensor(That is, radar camera)Either by the way that the two dimension or 3-D view of object can be provided Any other suitable sensor shoot.
The object can be any object that should be searched out, for example, harmful or dangerous equipment, as such as similar The weapon of pistol, rifle, knife etc., or the other equipment with character shape, for example, the bottle equipped with liquid.Certainly, this method It is equally applicable to the other equipment that search can be hidden.Object may include people, suitcase or the box to wear clothes Or it can be used in hiding any other object of hereinbefore described equipment.It should be appreciated, however, that safety reasons are in, can To search for equipment(That is, weapon, dangerous material), equally can also for other reasons and should identification equipment, for example, the group of wedding feast The person of knitting searches for fluid bottle(' unwanted article ' in this scene), because he wants to forbid bringing into such bottle In wedding feast, because he wants the product of sale himself.
Generally, the first image of shooting not only includes the object that should be searched for for concealing device, but also including in addition Background or foreground information, for example, around other box or suitcase, the people that should be searched for hidden objectses Other people;Automobile, building around the object that should be searched etc..
In step s 102, the area-of-interest in the first image is determined by user or software algorithm.Region of interest Domain is the region that should be more carefully checked in the first image.
For example, the first image can be similar with the first image 200 schematically described in fig. 2.First image 200 can be with It is shown on the display of hand-held screening installation, or can enters in the inside for the processor for being suitable for handling the first image 200 Row processing.Generally, the first image 200 can be formed by the picture element matrix with brightness value, and alternatively, by with for The picture element matrix of the chromatic value of each pixel in picture element matrix is formed.
In first image 200 as described in Figure 2, people 210 and suitcase 220 are shown.In order to reduce complexity and Other background information is not shown, it may be evident, however, that such as building or street around such as people 210 and suitcase 220 What the other background information of environment was normally present.
For example, as described in figure 3, the suitcase 220 in the first image 200 is confirmed as area-of-interest.Can be with Inputted by the user for holding screening installation to perform determination, or image procossing can be passed through(For example, pass through identification the Character shape in one image 200 and by this feature shape compared with the template stored in database)Automatically to hold The row determination.Furthermore, it is possible to by assessing by radiancy(radiometric)Passive camera, infrared camera or by low Resolution ratio or coarse monostatic radar scanning caused by the first image, and identify to be further analyzed/scan it is interested Region, to identify area-of-interest, and can be in the second follow-up scanning with higher image quality(For example, higher resolution Rate)Carry out the further analysis/scanning.
In step S104, the second image is produced by scanning the monostatic radar image of area-of-interest.By expanding Launch in the range of big millimeter wavelength and receive reflected/electromagnetic radiation that is scattered forms active radar image.Millimeter The frequency of wave-length coverage radiation is considered as within 10GHz to 500GHz.
The example of the second image 400 is described in Fig. 4.Second image 400 can be shown to be examined by monostatic radar scanning The hidden objectses measured;Rifle 420 has been illustratively described herein.When rifle 420 is with the naked eye known by the user of hand-held screening installation When not going out or being automatically identified for example, by template of the template matches in database, siren can trigger.
Because suitcase 220 is identified as area-of-interest in figure 3, therefore the second image 400 only includes suitcase 220. The small region of some near suitcase 220 can certainly be included in the second image 400.
Important region is gathered in by the method proposed can scan monostatic radar, and therefore, in order to find Hiding object, the user for holding screening installation can easily focusing on him on key area.Other Effect can be the transmitting for reducing radar signal to save and reduce influence of the radar signal of transmitting to environment.In addition, because For with high resolution scanning and the Zone Full as described in the first image 200 need not be shown, therefore can improve with height Resolution ratio produces the speed of monostatic radar image.
As described in Fig. 5 and Fig. 6, it is of course possible to by the people 210 in the first image 200 or position(Here, people 210 trunk 510)It is defined to area-of-interest.This second other image for scanning the monostatic radar for producing trunk 510 600.The rifle 420 hidden by people 210 can be identified(For example, below his clothes).
According to embodiment as described in Figure 7, the proposal to area-of-interest can be automatically determined(Here, people 210 trunk 510).However, area-of-interest can be changed into suitcase 220 by user from body 510.For example, it can lead to Moving window over the display is crossed, by being moved on touch-screen display using finger, by light on touch-screen display Selected area-of-interest, or any other possible measure are struck to mark and/or change shown information, so as to come Perform this change.
User determines to start to the scanning of the Zone Full described in the first image 200 to replace only to proposing automatically It is also feasible that smaller area-of-interest, which is scanned,.
Fig. 8 describes perspective view and describes the schematic block diagram of hand-held screening installation 800 in fig.9.
Hand-held screening installation 800 includes active radar scanning unit 902, and the monostatic radar scanning element, which is used to launch, to expand The reflecting electromagnetic radiation of electromagnetic radiation and reception in the range of the millimeter wavelength of expansion in the range of big millimeter wavelength.Can be with Electromagnetic radiation or radar signal are launched with specific beam pattern with cover/illuminate scene(810).Millimeter wavelength scope spoke The frequency penetrated is within 10GHz to 500GHz.
Processor 910 is included in security scanner, processor control monostatic radar scanning element 902.It is optional Ground is selected, is provided with another camera 920 for shooting the first image 200.Another camera 920 can be photo-optics Machine, IR(Infrared ray)Camera, thermal camera, passive radar(Radiancy camera)Or for shooting the first image 200 Any other suitable camera.Produced by the low resolution scanning of monostatic radar scanning element 902 or coarse scan First image 200, and then by high-resolution monostatic radar scan produce area-of-interest the second image 400 and can Capable.
Hand-held screening installation 800 can further comprise the display for showing the first image 200 and/or the second image 400 830。
There is provided handle 850, allows the user to be held with one to stop and holds screening installation 800 and can hold very much Change places and operate it.
Input mechanism 930 can be set, with allow user directly selected on display 830 region interested or By the area-of-interest for changing the pre-selection described in Fig. 7.Input mechanism may include mouse, touch-screen, keyboard, tracking ball or Any other known input mechanism of person.
In addition, hand-held screening installation may include database or memory cell 940.Database 940 can be stored for automatic The template of ground identification area-of-interest and/or template for identifying hidden objectses is stored, automatically to trigger alarm.
Obviously, can there are the deformation and change of many according to the above-mentioned teaching disclosure.It will thus be appreciated that in appended power In the range of profit requires, in addition to such as explicitly described herein, the present invention can also be otherwise put into practice.

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1. a kind of method for operating hand-held screening installation, including:
Shoot the first image;
Determine the area-of-interest in described first image;And
Scan image is produced by the monostatic radar scanning of the area-of-interest to be examined by monostatic radar scanning to identify The hidden objectses measured,
Wherein, the hidden objectses are used in database identify the templates of the hidden objectses and identified by template matches Go out, so as to trigger siren automatically, wherein, the database purchase is used for the template for identifying the hidden objectses.
2. according to the method for claim 1, wherein, described first image is shot by monostatic radar camera.
3. according to the method for claim 1, wherein, described first image is shot by photographic camera.
4. according to the method for claim 1, wherein, described first image is shot by radiancy camera.
5. method according to any one of claim 1 to 4, wherein, described first image is taken as coarse scan.
6. method according to any one of claim 1 to 4, wherein, the database is also stored for automatically identifying The template of area-of-interest, search for and be stored in wherein the step of determining the area-of-interest is included in described first image The region for being used to automatically identify the template matches of area-of-interest in the database.
7. method according to any one of claim 1 to 4, wherein it is determined that the step of area-of-interest is included really Surely there is the region of high radiancy or monostatic radar signal.
8. method according to any one of claim 1 to 4, wherein, the scan image is produced with high resolution model.
9. method according to any one of claim 1 to 4, further comprises:
Show described first image and the area-of-interest in an overlapping manner over the display;
Window on the display is moved to the second area-of-interest;
Produce the scan image of second area-of-interest.
10. a kind of hand-held screening installation, including:
Monostatic radar scanning element;And
Processor, for determining the area-of-interest in the first image and controlling the monostatic radar scanning element to produce The monostatic radar for stating area-of-interest is scanned to identify by the detected hidden objectses of monostatic radar scanning,
Memory cell, the memory cell store the template for identifying the hidden objectses, wherein, the hidden objectses pass through Template of the template matches in the memory cell and be identified, so as to trigger siren automatically.
11. hand-held screening installation according to claim 10, further comprises:
Camera, for shooting described first image.
12. hand-held screening installation according to claim 10, wherein, the processor is configured to based on described The low resolution monostatic radar image of monostatic radar scanning element produces described first image.
13. the hand-held screening installation according to any one of claim 10 to 12, wherein, the memory cell is additionally operable to deposit Store up the template for area-of-interest described in automatic identification and/or for triggering alarm automatically.
14. the hand-held screening installation according to any one of claim 10 to 12, further comprises:
Display, for showing described first image;And
Input block, for allowing to select the area-of-interest.
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